[OSM-dev] Defining the area of a country / What country is a LatLon in.

[Martijn van Oosterhout]

On Nov 23, 2007 9:30 AM, Joerg Ostertag (OSM Munich/Germany)
<openstreetmap at ostertag.name> wrote:
>
> > But seriously, if you want boundaries *now*, go to the CIA world
> > databank, download the shapefiles and be happy. They're a little out
> > of date but for most parts of the world the boundaries havn't changed
> > much. Eventually the OSM data will get to the same level of accuracy,
> > but we're not there yet...
>
> Would the CIA data be compliant with our Data? In other words; could we import
> them into OSM(concerning the License)?

It's listed here:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Potential_Datasources#The_CIA_World_DataBank

Actually, I thought people were uploading it, because there are
boundaries for various contries in the DB.

Have a nice day,
-- 
Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog at gmail.com> http://svana.org/kleptog/